Finance Consulting - Manager/Senior Manager (private sector)

PwC Consulting helps organisations to work smarter and grow faster. With plans to treble its revenues over the next four years, Consulting is the fastest growing area of PwC. We offer practical, far-sighted advice and exceptional delivery. That can mean improving the way an organisation operates, reducing costs, managing risks, making the most of talent or fundamentally changing the way a business works.

Our Finance Consulting practice delivers innovative business transformation projects across a wide range of industries and are recruiting at Manager and Senior Manager grade

We provide knowledge and experience to enable the Finance Department to respond to the changing needs and expectations of the business and to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of finance operations whilst addressing the ever-increasing challenges of new regulatory requirements. We provide full lifecycle support to CFO's on Finance function redesign including advising on optimal organisation, process and systems design and providing end-to-end support for subsequent implementation.

We support clients across the private sector in the following areas :

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Developing Finance vision and strategy;

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Assessing and improving the role, organisation and effectiveness of finance functions;

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Designing and implementing the target operating model (TOM);

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Finance system design and implementation;

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Implementing and optimising shared service centres;

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Outsourcing advisory services from strategy through to execution;

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Scoping and delivering sustainable cost reduction;

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Process design and optimisation.

You will be expected to primarily work on client engagements, contributing to and leading finance change projects (‘delivery’), although you will also spend time supporting the development of operational finance solutions and thought leadership (‘development’).

Essential skills and experience

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Substantive experience from a consulting firm or professional services company (Essential)

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Track record of managing finance change projects

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Ability in stakeholder management and relationship building;

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Supported the development of solutions to Finance function challenges in the following areas:

Understanding of back office transformation approaches outside of pure finance such as HR, IT or Procurement transformation

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Used a Lean approach to process / cost optimisation;

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Used benchmarking techniques and data

LocationLondon

Consulting

In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients’ business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries – everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

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Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

About the role

PwC Consulting helps organisations to work smarter and grow faster. With plans to treble its revenues over the next four years, Consulting is the fastest growing area of PwC. We offer practical, far-sighted advice and exceptional delivery. That can mean improving the way an organisation operates, reducing costs, managing risks, making the most of talent or fundamentally changing the way a business works.

Our Finance Consulting practice delivers innovative business transformation projects across a wide range of industries and are recruiting at Manager and Senior Manager grade

We provide knowledge and experience to enable the Finance Department to respond to the changing needs and expectations of the business and to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of finance operations whilst addressing the ever-increasing challenges of new regulatory requirements. We provide full lifecycle support to CFO's on Finance function redesign including advising on optimal organisation, process and systems design and providing end-to-end support for subsequent implementation.

We support clients across the private sector in the following areas :

*

Developing Finance vision and strategy;

*

Assessing and improving the role, organisation and effectiveness of finance functions;

*

Designing and implementing the target operating model (TOM);

*

Finance system design and implementation;

*

Implementing and optimising shared service centres;

*

Outsourcing advisory services from strategy through to execution;

*

Scoping and delivering sustainable cost reduction;

*

Process design and optimisation.

You will be expected to primarily work on client engagements, contributing to and leading finance change projects (‘delivery’), although you will also spend time supporting the development of operational finance solutions and thought leadership (‘development’).

Essential skills and experience

*

Substantive experience from a consulting firm or professional services company (Essential)

*

Track record of managing finance change projects

*

Ability in stakeholder management and relationship building;

*

Supported the development of solutions to Finance function challenges in the following areas:

Understanding of back office transformation approaches outside of pure finance such as HR, IT or Procurement transformation

*

Used a Lean approach to process / cost optimisation;

*

Used benchmarking techniques and data

LocationLondon

Consulting

In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients’ business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries – everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Learn more here javascript:void(0);

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.